Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit of the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devilworshippers; and an Enquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians, Volume 1 |
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alabaster Amadiyah amongst ancient appeared Arabs Asheetha Assyrian Baghdad bas-reliefs Beder Khan Bey Botta bricks brought building carpets carried castle Cawals Cawass centre Chaldæans chamber chariot chief Christian church Colossal winged figures desert discovered district encampment entrance eunuch excavations facing feet fir-cone followed formed fragments hand head Hormuzd Rassam horned cap horsemen horses houses human-headed Ibrahim Agha inhabitants Ismail Pasha journey Kasha Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds lions lower Melek Mesopotamia monuments Mosul mound mountains Mussulman Nestorian Nestorius Nimroud Nineveh ornaments palace party Patriarch plain plunder priests Rassam ravine reached remains returned river rocks rode round ruins salamlik scarcely sculptures sect Selamiyah Shammar Sheikh Adi Sheikh Nasr sides similar Sinjar Sofuk stones Syria tents Tigris tion Tiyari Tkhoma tomb trenches tribe Ulema uncovered Unsculptured slabs upper usual inscription valley village walls warriors whilst women workmen Yezidis
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Page 76 - Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
Page 77 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Page 241 - ... As I was gazing on this extraordinary scene, the hum of human voices was suddenly hushed, and a strain, solemn and melancholy, arose from the valley. It resembled some majestic chant which years before I had listened to in the cathedral of a distant land. Music so pathetic and so sweet I had never before -heard in the East. The voices of men and women were blended in harmony with the soft notes of many flutes. At measured intervals the song was broken by the loud clash of cymbals and tambourines...
Page 47 - Wallah ! your books are right, and the Franks know that which is hid from the true believer. Here is the gold, sure enough, and please God, we shall find it all in a few days. Only don't say any thing about it to those Arabs, for they are asses and cannot hold their tongues. The matter will come to the ears of the Pasha.
Page 76 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 17 - A case scarcely three feet square inclosed all that remained, not only of the great city, Nineveh, but of Babylon itself! Other museums in Europe contained a few cylinders and gems, which came from Assyria and Babylonia ; but they were not classified, nor could it be determined to what exact epoch they belonged. Of Assyrian art nothing was known.
Page 74 - Musulmans of the town, against proceedings so directly contrary to the laws of the Koran. The Cadi had no distinct idea whether the bones of the mighty hunter had been uncovered, or only his image ; nor did Ismail Pasha very clearly remember whether Nimrod was a true-believing prophet, or an Infidel.
Page 77 - Nineveh a desolation and dry like a wilderness, and flocks lie down in the midst of her : all the beasts of the nations, both the cormorant and bittern, lodge in the upper lintels of it ; their voice sings in the windows ; and desolation is in the thresholds.
Page 43 - Visions of palaces underground, of gigantic monsters, of sculptured figures, and endless inscriptions, floated before me. After forming plan after plan for removing the earth, and extricating these treasures, I fancied myself wandering in a maze of chambers from which I could find no outlet. Then again, all was reburied, and I was standing on the grass-covered mound.
Page 74 - As he requested me to discontinue my operations until the sensation in the town had somewhat subsided, I returned to Nimroud and dismissed the workmen, retaining only two men to dig leisurely along the walls without giving cause for further interference. I ascertained by the end of March the existence of a second pair of winged human-headed lions, differing from those previously discovered in form, the human shape being continued to the waist, and being furnished with human arms, as well as with...